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" I saw The Jeff Beck Group at the Marquee Club in 1967, when he was with Rod Stewart, and holy smokes, they were amazing. "

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" We come from a generation where the music was very innovative, a lot of it coming out of blues and influenced by blues: the idea was that you would jam on things, and you'd try things out. You took a journey, and you took a left turn, and you experimented live right there in the moment. "

" Every day, every time I sing, I feel blessed, really, to be able to do that. It's like having wings, in a way. It's a bit like flying sometimes, because you go off into another realm. And a whole lot of people come with you. It's amazing. "

" There is magic on earth. "

" I liked the 12-bar blues because everybody could play it, but they could also play it their own way, and they could express their own emotions using that as a structure. "

" 'Shooting Star' started out as the arrangement on the record, and it's developed into a real audience-participation song, just from playing it. "

" Live music is where you get the inspiration and the creativity. "

" I get a bit quick-tempered sometimes. "

" Being in a band is all-consuming, and I like to have a life. "

" In Free, we managed ourselves, and it was too tough for us to handle all of what that entailed when we got to touring America. "

" I don't like lyrics to be overbearing. I like them to say something. But I'm not trying to change the world overnight. Something simple and understandable that people can relate their own everyday experiences to. "

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" In order to write music, you need lots of Tabasco sauce. "

" I have a secret weapon. My wife Cynthia is very good at keeping me in shape. She's very good for me. She's the best thing that happened to me. "

" Soul and blues were a definite influence on me. It was raw and naked emotion which you didn't get much where I come from. "

" I loved the 'Free Spirit' tour and the guys who helped create the magic: Pete Bullick, Rich Newman, Ian Rowley and Gerard 'G' Louis. "

" When I went down to London in '67, I had three things in mind: To survive, to find peace of mind, and to make music doing it. "

" I got the idea of what a band should be from listening to Booker T and Otis Redding. "

" I got the idea for the song 'Bad Company' when I saw a poster for the Jeff Bridges movie, and it reminded of an old Victorian picture that I'd once seen, and it said, 'Beware of bad company.' So I sat down at the piano and started to write the song. "

" If you look at my history, my history is that of forming bands rather than joining them. "

" Free - I miss that band, but when I look back, we were very young. "

" I just try to keep an open mind, and that's the way a lot of good things happen. "

" I tend to want to form bands and then create new music within them. Queen was an exception, and we joined forces because it just seemed to work when we played together. "

" Of course I was a fan when I was a kid. That's what made me get into it, the whole rock n' roll fantasy. "

" There's a lot of trickery that can go on in the studio, and there's a lot that one can do - none of which I am interested in even slightly. I mean, you can actually tune vocals and stuff like that, but it's so hideous, I can't believe it. "

" With Free, we were teenagers, and, ummm, there was a lot of raging hormones. "

" There are just so many people making music out there. I've always promoted the idea that everybody needs to make music. I think the more music there is in the world, the better, but it does make it highly competitive. "

" I come from a working-class family of seven children. "

" When I was 14, I heard Otis Redding in a club local to me, and I was blown away. It leaped out at me and went straight to my heart. I set my sights on singing like that. "

" A lot of those early blues records and soul records were pretty much live. It was what it was, and they had goofs and mistakes, but it still kept its charm. We have to remember to keep the feel. It's so important. "

" I am proud to be a Canuck. "

" When I first started writing songs, I looked around at the bands that were making it, and they all had the original material. Jimi Hendrix, the Beatles, the Stones - everybody was writing their own songs. That's the way that you established your own identity. "